LAST UPDATE | 4 Sep 2025

GOOD MORNING. 

Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day. 

Tusla

1. The interactions of Tusla with the boy feared dead in Donabate have raised significant questions again about an agency very rarely far from controversy. Read more from our reporter Niall O’Connor.

Lisbon

2. Portugal is holding a day of national mourning after a funicular train derailed in Lisbon, killing at least 15 people in one of the capital’s most popular tourist spots.

Ukraine

3. European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are to meet in Paris today in a new effort to pile pressure on Vladimir Putin after he vowed Russia will fight on in Ukraine if no peace deal is reached.

Live Forever

4. Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before Beijing’s massive military parade this week, in comments picked up by state media microphones.

Tipperary

5. Claims made by a US businessman that he has no involvement in the running of an international protection centre in Co Tipperary are “untrue”, the High Court heard.

Haiti

6. Tánaiste Simon Harris said he is relieved after speaking to Irish missionary Gena Heraty who was released from a kidnapping in Haiti.

Graham Linehan

7. Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan is set to face trial, accused of harassing a transgender woman, days after his arrest over social media posts.

Ryanair

8. From today, Ryanair is increasing its free personal baggage allowance but the airline is resisting a push by the EU to also allow passengers free 7kg carry-on cases.

Nazi loot

9. Argentine authorities recovered an 18th century painting stolen by Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector over a week after it appeared in a property ad only to suddenly vanish.